English
trainer
Trainer comes from Old French traïner ‘to drag’, and goes back to Latin trahere.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEtrahere
- Vulgar Latinc. 100–700 CE*tragīnāre‘to drag, to pull, to trail’reconstructed
- Old Frenchc. 842–1400traïner‘to drag’
- Old French, derivedc. 842–1400train
- Middle Englishc. 1150–1500trayne
- English1500–presenttrain
- Englishearliest quotation 2000trainer
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEtrahere
- Vulgar Latinc. 100–700 CE*tragīnāre‘to drag, to pull, to trail’reconstructed
- Old Frenchc. 842–1400traïner‘to drag’
- Old French, derivedc. 842–1400train
- Middle Englishc. 1150–1500trayne
- English1500–presenttrain
- Englishearliest quotation 2000trainer
Earliest quotation: 2000, Phil, I need trainer for version 1.10.021: “I actually never got a trainer for RCT, but…”
A compound of train + -er
Latin trahō ‘to pull, to draw’
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Vulgar Latin *traginō
Old French trainer ‘to pull out, to draw’
Old French train ‘a delay, a drawing out’
Middle English trayne ‘train’
English train
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *dʰregʰ- ‘to run, to drag, to pull’
draw, draft, attractive, drag, retreat, attraction, portrait, distraction, extraction, tract, draught, entreat, 53 more
Today it means
noun A person who trains another; a coach.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin trahere / trainer